Wednesday, April 8, 2015

How do you do it all? {Real Life Homeschool}

I fully intended to write a post yesterday for the Real Life Homeschool blog hop. But, well, life got in the way.

So I figured now was a perfect time for a post about my least favorite question.

How do you do it all?

The honest answer is -- I don't.

Some days are like the first two this week. Or today, for that matter.

I am not feeling well, and end up taking a nap or two because I desperately need it.

I have five different kids who need to be doing school, and all of them need at least some attention from me.

I have a house to clean.

I have deadlines for work, and those projects always seem to take far more time than I think they will.

I haven't done laundry in forever and that is in desperate need of getting done.

I want to read.

I want to start stitching on the cross-stitch project my mom was working on before she died.

My family seems to think they should eat.

Did I mention I need a nap?

I don't have time to do it all, and especially not to do it all well.

You know that saying out there, "Anything worth doing is worth doing well"?

Yeah. Right. I have a different one.

Forget doing it well.

And honestly, I don't even finish all the stuff that is worth doing. But when it comes to certain things, I do not worry about doing it "well."

I have to cheat something. So that means that you can't eat off my floors. The inside of the fridge is usually not never pristine. I use audiobooks instead of reading aloud to my kids. I make them figure out their own school stuff way too often.

The difference between a toilet scrubbed "well" and one that is "just done" is a whole lot of time, mostly. I've got hard water stains, and yes, I've seen the miracle vinegar trick on Facebook to get rid of them. But that takes time. Time I could be spending reading with my kids, or working on math, or heading outside to run around.

I don't fold socks and underwear either. They get stuffed into drawers, and that is good enough for me.

As for the homeschool stuff, I feel like I never quite do enough there. Which is probably my topic for tomorrow.

Bottom line for today, though. I don't do it all. I probably don't even do all the important stuff. And the stuff I do get done is often at the last minute.

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Here are some of the other blogs that are participating. I'll be linking up ten a day! Twenty today, because <ahem> I didn't post yesterday.